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Revisiting David Bowie’s Difficult “Middle” Period: Who Can I Be Now? 1974-1976

Forgive me for taking this long to fully absorb the recent David Bowie box set, the 12-CD (or 13-LP) Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), which came out at the end of September. The box documents the discursive middle years of Bowieโ€™s legendary decadeโ€”that decade being 1970 to 1980, where virtually everything he set to […]

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Record Review: Roy Meriwether, Nubian Lady

A recent New York Times โ€œPopcast” discussed the phenomenon of jazz concerts taking place inside of museums, an oddly statelyโ€”if not outright staleโ€”setting for jazzโ€™s live vibrancy and subversive quality. The podcasters were obliged to briefly harrumph and haw about the juxtaposition, but they had to eventually concede that, in the year 2016, a museum […]

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